On November 16th, the official website of Thomson Reuters released the list of global Highly Cited Researchers. 2016. A total of 3083 global scientists of 21 disciplines such as agricultural science, plant and animal science etc., entered the list, of which 183 scientists of 18 disciplines were from China (included 34 scientists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions). Professor Xiao Jianbo of College of Food Science of FAFU was one of the 183 Chinese scientists selected into the list of 2016 Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers.

The number of Highly Cited Researchers was an important index of World University Rankings. Only 132 scientists all over the world of the agriculture science were selected into the list of “Highly Cited Researchers 2016”.

The list of “Highly Cited Researcher 2016” was determined by analyzing and evaluating the highly cited papers in the fields of 21 disciplines of natural and social sciences that were published from 2004 to 2014 and selected by Essential Science Indicators (ESI). The scientists of each relevant discipline were ranked according to their quantity of highly cited ESI papers published from 2004 to 2014.

Professor Xiao Jianbo was selected as a Minjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor in 2015. He was officially recruited by the College of Food Science of FAFU in September, 2016. Since his selection as a Minjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor, he has published 7 SCI papers (of which 4 were JCR1), of which the impact factor exceeded 31. For each of these paper, he was the first or corresponding author, with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University as the signature unit of the first author.